Two weeks into his second season of leading the Rockies, Colorado's Walt Weissis well aware of one of the tenets of a big-league manager: You can't please all the people all the time.

"You're always going to have people mad at you," Weiss said Saturday morning in the Rockies' dugout at AT&T Park. "It's inevitable, almost daily. You've got to be OK with that.

"As long as you hold to what you think is true and what you think is right and you take your best shot every night, that's how you look in the mirror and you're OK with it."

Weiss was the AL Rookie of the Year with the A's in 1988. He played shortstop on Oakland teams that won four division championships, three AL pennants and the 1989 World Series.

He learned a lot from manager Tony La Russa, who's entering the Hall of Fame this year.

"There were times back then where Tony would push your buttons to get you motivated, even if it (would) tick you off a little bit," Weiss said. "He was always looking for a way to create an edge that night, and he was real good at finding it."

Weiss said that he and La Russa "banged heads a couple of times, but I have the greatest respect in the world for the guy, and there's been nobody that has supported me like he has in this position."

On deck

Sundayvs. Rockies

1:05 p.m. CSNBA

Chatwood (0-0) vs.

Hudson (2-0)

Monday

Off

Tuesday

vs. Dodgers

7:15 p.m. CSNBA

Beckett (0-0) vs.

Lincecum (0-1)

Leading off

Power bat: Bruce Bochy jokes with his players that if someone hits a homer, he's in the lineup the next day. After his grand slam Friday night, Madison Bumgarner asked Bochy why he wasn't in Saturday's lineup.